Commercial Glass
The partnership between Walker Glass and Vitro provides a bird-safe glazing solution while saving energy. AviProtek® E bird-safe low-e glass helps architects and building owners to achieve their environmental goals, earn LEED® credits and meet solar-performance targets.
AviProtek® E glass patterns can be applied as horizontal, vertical or decorative visual markers on the first (exterior) surface of both clear and Starphire Ultra-Clear® glass substrates; and with Solarban® 60 or Solarban® 70 glass on the second (interior) surface of an insulating glass unit (IGU).
Ultra-Clear and Clear Glass
Experience the brilliance and amazing clarity that conventional clear glass simply can't match - and colors so true you won't believe you're looking through glass. Only Starphire Ultra-Clear® glass by Vitro Architectural Glass allows views so brilliant, you'll forget the glass is even there. For interiors, exteriors as well as heavy and safety glass applications in thicknesses up to 3/4 inch, no low-iron glass consistently maintains its transparency, color fidelity and vivid beauty like Starphire® glass.
Clarvista® glass by Vitro Architectural Glass provides a lifetime protective coating that keeps your new shower enclosure looking sparkling clear by preventing the dullness that can come from heat and humidity over time. With Clarvista® glass, the look you love will remain beautiful for years to come.
Combining the color fidelity of new Acuity® low-iron glass with the performance you expect from the Solarban® family of glasses, you can design an ambitious facade - and actually realize it, on budget and on time. Acuity® glass is available on the full range of Solarban® solar control, low-e coatings.
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VacuMax™ vacuum insulating glass (VIG) by Vitro Architectural Glass integrates with any traditional (and even non-traditional) glazing system to maximize insulation performance. With wall-like R-values up to R20, VacuMax™ VIG is the ultimate in thermal glazing.
The newest generation of VacuMax™ VIG is now manufactured exclusively with Solarban® 70 solar-control, low-e glass by Vitro and can be used alone as nominal ¼" glass to replace monolithic (single-pane) glass without needing to replace the framing system. Additionally, a new manufacturing process means the next generation of VacuMax™ VIG units don't require a vacuum port and feature a getter that's hidden from view.
Solar Control Low-e Coated Glass
The partnership between Walker Glass and Vitro provides a bird-safe glazing solution while saving energy. AviProtek® E bird-safe low-e glass helps architects and building owners to achieve their environmental goals, earn LEED® credits and meet solar-performance targets.
AviProtek® E glass patterns can be applied as horizontal, vertical or decorative visual markers on the first (exterior) surface of both clear and Starphire Ultra-Clear® glass substrates; and with Solarban® 60 or Solarban® 70 glass on the second (interior) surface of an insulating glass unit (IGU).
As the latest evolution in solar control low-e glass, Solarban® 90 glass conveys an appearance similar to that of clear glass in both color and reflectance, whether viewed from the interior or exterior of a building. Combining new materials with advanced coating technology and refinements, Solarban® 90 glass is engineered to outperform even Solarban® 70 glass (formerly Solarban® 70XL glass), the most preferred high-performance solar control low‑e glass in North America.
Solarban® R100 glass is a neutral-reflective low-e glass by Vitro Architectural Glass that provides significant improvements in solar performance compared to competing products in the same architectural glass category. Because Solarban® R100 glass uniquely balances reflectivity and color-neutrality, it can function as a privacy glass as well as in harmony with spandrels and other building materials.
With its transparent, color-neutral aesthetic and unprecedented solar control and visible light transmittance characteristics, Solarban® 70 glass (formerly Solarban® 70XL glass) can help you strike the right balance between form and function. Due to its clarity, consistency and solar control performance, Solarban® 70 glass has become the most commonly specified triple-silver-coated glass in the industry.
With its ability to block 62 percent of solar energy while allowing 70 percent of visible light to pass through, Solarban® 60 glass can help you provide year-round comfort with heating and cooling cost savings. In addition to functioning with clear glass, Solarban® 60 glass also can be combined in insulating glass units (IGUs) with an outboard lite of tinted or reflective-tinted glass to increase aesthetic and performance options.
Solarban® 60 Optiblue® glass (formerly Solarban® z50 glass) is a soothing, neutral, steel blue‑gray glass comprised of Solarban® 60 solar control low‑e coating on Optiblue® glass.
With its soothing, neutral, steel blue-gray appearance, Solarban® 60 Optiblue® glass brings a distinctly different aesthetic to the Solarban® family, along with minimal exterior reflectance, superb solar control and high levels of visible light transmittance (VLT). Solarban® 60 Optiblue® glass consists of Solarban® 60 solar control, lowe coating on Optiblue® tinted glass with clear glass as the inboard lite.
Experience the brilliance and amazing clarity that conventional clear glass simply can't match - and colors so true you won't believe you're looking through glass. Only Starphire Ultra-Clear® glass by Vitro Architectural Glass allows views so brilliant, you'll forget the glass is even there. For interiors, exteriors as well as heavy and safety glass applications in thicknesses up to 3/4 inch, no low-iron glass consistently maintains its transparency, color fidelity and vivid beauty like Starphire® glass.
Solarban® 70 Optiblue® glass (formerly Solarban® z75 glass) is a neutral, high-performing glass comprised of Solarban® 70 solar control low‑e coating (formerly Solarban® 70XL glass) on Optiblue® glass.
With its steel blue-gray appearance and high visible light transmittance (VLT), Solarban® 70 Optiblue® low‑e glass excels at controlling glare while offering superior solar control properties to support sustainable design. The result is a VLT and a low solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC) that meets or exceeds competing architectural glasses with a similar aesthetic.
Solarban® R67 glass (formerly Solarban® 67 glass) provides excellent solar control performance that transmits and reflects colors with remarkably crisp fidelity.
Engineered with a proprietary double-silver, magnetron-sputtered vacuum deposition (MSVD) coating developed by Vitro Architectural Glass (formerly PPG glass), Solarban® R67 glass accurately transmits and reflects the tone and brightness of ambient light and color. The crispness and clarity of Solarban® R67 glass is further enhanced by its low interior and exterior reflectivity.
Solarban® 72 glass is a triple-silver-coated solar control low-e glass designed specifically for Vitro low-iron glass substrates, Starphire Ultra-Clear® glass and Acuity™ Low-Iron glass. Solarban® 72 glass provides high visible light transmittance (VLT), exceptional clarity and superior solar control performance. The exceptionally clear aesthetic makes it the ideal choice for both interior and exterior applications, such as vision and spandrel glass.
Solarban® 60 Starphire® glass can help you achieve your design vision of a glass building with the ultimate in transparency and visual clarity combined with energy efficiency. Solarban® 60 Starphire® glass allows ultra-clear glass to be used for vision glass, skylights, atriums, storefronts and entryways without sacrificing energy performance.
Thanks to its balanced, reflective visual quality, Solarban® R77 glass is ideal for realizing facade and curtainwall designs intended to capture the visual character of the sky and ambient environment. On the building exterior, Solarban® R77 glass offers a crisp, silver-blue transmitted color. On the building interior, Solarban® R77 glass provides clear exterior views and soft, natural, neutral daylighting. Its low interior reflectance means Solarban® R77 glass offers crisp, lively views of the outdoors.
Solarban® R77 glass must always be heat-treated, even for laminated applications commonly suited for annealed glass.
Sungate ThermL™ glass is a low-e coating engineered for use on the interior surface of a typical one-inch insulating glass unit (IGU) that dramatically improves U-values when paired with a Solarban® solar control low-e glass by Vitro on the second surface.
Sungate ThermL™ glass is neutral, colorless and provides low reflectivity, so it looks just like uncoated clear glass while offering enhanced durability and insulation. Sungate ThermL™ glass is engineered to allow for a high rate of visible light transmittance (VLT) and to retain the indoor heated air by slowing down heat transfer through the IGU to reduce winter heating costs.
*Similar to Sungate ThermL™ glass, Solarban® 70 glass shown on the UC San Diego Torrey Pines Living & Learning Community is neutral, colorless and provides low reflectivity while offering remarkable thermal performance.
Solarban® 65 solar control, low-e glass is designed to offer superior energy efficiency, which can help you provide year-round comfort with heating and cooling cost savings. A modernization of our popular Solarban® 60 glass, Solarban® 65 glass is engineered to meet today's stricter code standards and sustainability goals while still offering a clear, color-neutral look.
*Solarban® 65 solar control low-e glass is a modernization of Vitro’s popular Solarban® 60 glass, shown on the Calgary Central Library. Solarban® 65 glass is designed to meet today’s stricter code standards with an improved SHGC of 0.35.
Passive Solar Low-e Glass
Manufactured with an MSVD “soft coat," Sungate® 400 glass helps buildings harvest energy from the sun and retain solar and furnace heat to reduce winter heating costs. Sungate® 400 delivers a winter U-value that is 9 percent higher than passive low-e glasses manufactured with a “hard" pyrolytic coating.
Blue & Green Tinted Glass
Azuria® glass is a stunning aqua-blue glass that is part of the nautically inspired tinted glass collection by Vitro Glass. Azuria® glass's distinctive aesthetic blends brilliantly with the surrounding environment, adding beauty while delivering solar control and spectrally selective properties that makes it one of the top glasses in the industry.
As a spectrally selective glass, Atlantica® glass can help you minimize reliance on artificial cooling and lighting by combining high visible light transmittance (VLT) with excellent solar heat control in a pleasant emerald-green aesthetic that complements a diverse range of building materials.
Offering high visible light transmittance (VLT), Solexia® glass is a soothing, light green tinted glass that is part of the nautically inspired collection by Vitro Glass. Trusted by architects since 1952, Solexia® glass remains an industry standard for spectrally selective performance.
Part of Vitro Glass's earth-inspired collection, Solarblue® glass features a sparkling, light sky-blue appearance that balances high visible light transmittance (VLT) of 50 percent with a solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC) of 0.49 in a 1-inch IGU.
Optiblue® glass is a light-bodied, neutral color tint that optimizes the performance and aesthetics of Solarban® glass coatings as substrates. In addition to providing Solarban® z75 and Solarban® z50 glasses with their cool-neutral appearance, combining Optiblue® glass with new Solarban® 90 glass in a standard 1-inch IGU results in a 0.20 solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC) and a visible light transmittance (VLT) of 37 percent.
Gray & Bronze Tinted Glass
Solarbronze® glass has been a staple in architectural glass offerings since the 1960s because it creates a bold visual statement while maintaining energy efficiency and occupant comfort. A popular choice for commercial structures, Solarbronze® glass has a warm bronze tint that adds subtle richness to the exterior and a warm glow to interior decor. The bronze color especially complements brick and stone facades.
Solargray® glass has been a popular choice for commercial structures because of its cool, medium-gray appearance and ability to control solar heat gain and glare. In a one-inch insulating glass unit (IGU), Solargray® glass provides visual light transmittance (VLT) of 40 percent. Solargray® glass may also be combined with Sungate®400 glass in a 1-inch IGU for improved solar heat gain performance and lower U-values. Solargray® glass's light-gray color makes it an attractive choice in combination with almost any other exterior cladding material.
Optigray® glass is designed to eliminate the green cast typically found in conventional clear glass formulations. It produces a warm, ultra-neutral aesthetic that brings crispness to vision glazing. Specially formulated to function as a substrate with solar control low-e coatings, Optigray® glass delivers advanced solar performance when paired with solar control low-e glasses, such as Solarban® 70, Solarban® 67, Solarban® 60 and Solarban® R100 glasses by Vitro Glass.
With its bold, almost-black look, Graylite® II glass is the solution for applications requiring reduced solar heat gain and a specific aesthetic objective. Graylite® II glass combines superior heat-load reduction and solar control with a distinctive color contrast. Its shading coefficient is among the lowest of any uncoated glass, and its low visible light transmittance (VLT) makes it ideal for glare control and privacy glazing.
Reflective Glass
Vistacool® subtly reflective color-enriched glasses transmit generous levels of visible light and provide color neutrality, which amplifies and enriches the tint of the glass substrate underneath without a mirror-like appearance. More understated than traditional reflective glass, Vistacool® glasses are available in two distinct tints - aqua-blue Azuria®and rich-blue Pacifica® Vistacool®glasses can be combined with Solarban® solar control low-e glass or Sungate® 400 low-e glass to achieve light-to-solar gain ratios as high as 1.66.
Short Form Spec - Ocean Inspired Series
Solarcool® glasses can be glazed with the reflective coating positioned on either the first or second surface. The glass has improved performance and higher exterior visible-reflectivity with a metallic sheen when installed with the coating on the first surface. Combined in a 1-inch insulating glass unit with clear glass, Solarcool® glasses offer an expansive palette of appearance and performance options.
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